The French Teacher

Noelle Stevenson and her sister journey to France at the height of the Great Depression. They are taken in by a wealthy Frenchman whose obligation to their dead father was born on a WWI battlefield--the ultimate sacrifice that the older man can never fully repay.
In the summer of 1940, the German military hurtles into France and Noelle must make a fateful decision. Should she put her career as a fashion model on hold and return to America, or remain in her adopted country and rescue helpless orphans from the Nazi onslaught?
Quickened by the flame of desire for a dashing French Naval officer, and emboldened by a chance encounter with Charles de Gaulle, Noelle discovers a reservoir of strength and a depth of love that together put her in the perilous crosshairs of the Gestapo.